is a psychotherapist in private practice, a hospice social worker, and a storyteller in Petaluma, California. As a social worker and therapist, she is an active listener and witness to many people's life stories, helping them find renewed meaning and restore their lives through re-story-ing. As a storyteller, she utilizes her collection of folktales in three areas of hospice work: death education, direct care of patients/families, and bereavement. In addition, she teaches workshops on the educational and therapeutic use of traditional stories to licensed health professionals and hospice staff throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Germany.